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Military service
Service number:
300448
Age:
29
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Artillery
Division:
3rd T.M. Battery
Birth:
May 10, 1887
Enlistment:
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
June 3, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 10
Additional information
Son of James and Sarah Assinder, of Ottawa, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Sergeant Edwin Assinder
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Inscription
Inscription on the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Panel 10 of the Menin Gate - August 2012 … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Photo of Edwin Assinder
This tribute to Edwin Assinder was included in the 1919 special edition "Our Heroes in the Great War" compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa. -
Newspaper Clipping
This page is from the July 14, 1916 Ottawa Citizen. In the column "Nine Ottawa Men In List", there is a paragraph on Sgt. Edwin Assinder (mistakenly called Edward in the article.) Sgt. Assinder is also commemorated on the Honour Roll for World War I at Erskine Presbyterian Church, Ottawa, Ontario. -
Inscription on Menin Gate (Ypres) Memorial
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Memorial
St Peter & St Paul Ottawa Great War Memorial -
Memorial
St Peter & St Paul Ottawa Great War Memorial
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
Digital gallery of
Sergeant Edwin Assinder
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 48 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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